Dan Dennett - Kinds of Minds 1-19

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Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett embarks on the audacious task of explaining human consciousness. He sets his sights even higher for Kinds of Minds, attempting to provide a more general explanation of consciousness. But don't be put off: the book is short, easy to read, and makes a good introduction to Dennett's richly interdisciplinary oeuvre. While beginners will appreciate Dennett's appeals to intuitive moral considerations to emphasize the importance of investigating consciousness, there is much in the book to hold the attention of readers already familiar with his previous work. At the beginning of Kinds of Minds Dennett asks, "What kinds of minds are there? And how do we know?" These two questions--the first ontological, the second epistemological--set the agenda for the book. Intuitions untutored by theory are not capable of answering these questions, Dennett argues, making it necessary to pursue insight from the evolutionary point of view. Accordingly, subsequent chapters are devoted to phylogenetic speculations about agency and intentionality, sensitivity and sentience, and perception and behavior. Particularly charming is the series of squiggly amoebas--the Darwinian, Skinnerian, Popperian, and Gregorian creatures--that illustrates the hierarchy of cognitive power. In the final chapter, Dennett returns to the original two questions, ending not with their answers, but, he hopes, with "better versions of the questions themselves."

CHAPTER 1: WHAT KINDS OF MINDS ARE THERE?

CHAPTER 2: INTENTIONALITY CHAPTER 3: THE BODY AND ITS MINDS

CHAPTER 4: HOW INTENTIONALITY CAME INTO FOCUS

CHAPTER 5: THE CREATION OF THINKING

CHAPTER 6: OUR MINDS AND OTHER MINDS

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Education

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• Consciousness
• Daniel Dennett
• human consciousness
• interdisciplinary
• moral
• Intuitions
• Darwin
• Skinner
• Popper
• Gregor
• cognitive power
• Science
• Research
• Theory
• Knowledge
• Belief
• Disbelief
• Evolution
• Education
• research
• Faith
• Atheism
• truth
• proof
• consciousness
• neuroscience

[Mentat1231]

Chapter 1 gets cut off at 9:30!! He says "To over-attribute minds -- to make friends with...", and then it jumps to chapter 2. What happened?

[azmanabdula]

@YourFuckenDad with only one comment.....

and absolutely little views.....(i month ago)

it was as though i was the only one listening to Dan Dennett......

peace.....

[YourFuckenDad]

@azmanabdula You feel as though a book that others are reading is a slice of knowledge that is all yours?

[azmanabdula]

not one comment?

ummm......

i feel as though a slice of knowledge is all mine......

and if you are reading this.....enjoy....and get out....

im listening......